Worldwide Hospitality Tourism and Themes – call for papers
Crime, terrorism and tourism: themed issue

Worldwide Hospitality Tourism and Themes

Editorial objectives
Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes (WHATT) provides thematic reviews of the major challenges facing the tourism and hospitality industry today. Combining empirical data with secondary research and views of senior practitioners in the field, each issue provides practical solutions to challenges faced by the industry worldwide.

Editorial criteria
Each thematic issue contains:
- Answers to a strategic challenge facing the tourism and hospitality industry, via empirical research articles 
- A summary of relevant literature on the theme 
- Discussion/'thought pieces’ with practitioners responsible for dealing with the specific industry challenge 
- Implementable and practical management action

The journal takes a unique format. Each issue is themed and addresses a significant hospitality / tourism challenge. The outcomes from each theme issue must be practical and implementable – WHATT aims to make a practical contribution to the sustainable development of the worldwide hospitality and tourism industry. 

Crime, terrorism and tourism: themed issue

Crime and terrorism represent a profound challenge for the tourism industry. For example, after 9/11, many Americans stopped flying, and it took several years for passenger volumes to recover. The tourism industries in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean islands were badly affected. Similarly, high rates of violent crime in countries like Mexico and Jamaica have deterred many tourists, and the economies of these countries have suffered significantly.

However, tourism is not just a victim of crime and terrorism, it is also a target. This reflects the way that the nature of terrorism has changed. Most European terrorists, such as the IRA or ETA, for example, applied a relatively rational cost-benefit analysis, calculating risk against the value of the impact. This does not apply, however, to people motivated by religious fundamentalism, and the latter group have realized that tourism is both economically significant and a soft target. For example:

•	The murder of 58 Western tourists at Luxor on November 17, 1997, which is believed to have been organized by al-Qaida, is estimated to have cost Egypt about half of its tourism revenue over the following year, which appears to have been the outcome intended.
•	The killing of over 200 people in the bombing of the Sari Club in Kuta on October 12, 2002, believed to have been organized by Jemaah Islamiah, a Southeast Asian militant network, had a similarly devastating impact on Bali’s tourism industry.

How can the travel and tourism industry meet these challenges?

WHATT is publishing a special theme issue on crime, terrorism and tourism in 2011. Articles would be welcome on all related topics. For example:
•	What is the cost of crime or terrorism to tourism?
•	Can security screening be made faster and less obtrusive?
•	Could the industry itself do more to improve security?

Anyone interested in contributing a paper is invited to contact the editors:

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Professor Ian Boxill		 [log in to unmask]

Dr Carolyn Hayle		[log in to unmask]

Submission deadline: 31st July 2011

For further information and about WHATT and to view the author guidelines please visit;

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/whatt.htm 

Editorial team

Managing Editor
Dr Richard Teare
Global University for Lifelong Learning, USA
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Publisher
Nicola Codner
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Assistant Publisher
Thomas Dark
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